Over the past decade, The Civilizations of Africa has established itself as the most authoritative text on early African history. Examining inventions and civilizations from 16,000 BCE to 1800 CE…

This work provides a systematic and comprehensive reconstruction of proto-Afroasiatic. The book applies throughout the established canon and techniques of the historical-comparative method and incorporates up-to-date evidence from the distinctive…

Contains 419 essays on historical events - from short, discrete events, such as battles or deaths, to longer, less definite events, such as the rise and fall of a culture…